POMA Accomplishments
What we have done and are continuing to do.
Current Projects
- Regularly meeting with Evansville Mayor and City Council members to resolve landlord and tenant issues alike.
- Working with EPD and Prosecutors office on homeless/squatter issue.
- Working with Building Commission and Department of Code Enforcement to create cooperative and helpful housing policies.
- Working with city and EWSU to create their webpage which gives us access to our water accounts and helped eliminate huge delinquent charges for rental owners.
Past Projects
- Worked to help create the Maintenance License for landlords to perform their own maintenance on units owned.
- Helped develop communication channels with the Building Commission to speed up resolving code violations and grass, weed, and trash issues.
- Worked with city officials in regards to the mandatory rental registry.
- Worked to make the required registry less restrictive for landlords.
- Stood up against the Good Neighbor ordinance and Mandatory Inspection proposals.
- Worked with Health Department on lead based paint issues for children.
- Helped establish the Mayor's No Meth Task Force (now the Mayor's Substance Abuse Task Force) to combat meth-related fires and explosions in rental properties.